First one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement.
JOHN GALSWORTHYWealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing – deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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A faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.
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It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.
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I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place – service – social service – the ants creed, the bees creed.
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Early morning does not mince words.
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Life calls the tune, we dance.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
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